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The Journal of Critical Studies [CS] African Literature [JAL] and Journal of New Poetry [NP] are annual volumes of critical expressions and research essays on the literatures of Africa and her Diaspora. You can order from an online bookstore or contact the publisher for bulk order quotation.

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JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LITERATURE # 9

 Further approaches to the problems of race, concepts of heroism and African writer’s memory and reinvention of linear time are all highlighted in this volume. The heroic wisdom of African proverbs as a metagenre is again being rediscovered in the new writings of African scholars. The unity of culture is also highlighted in the importance of sharing equally fruits of modern collective efforts. A palimpsestic or multidimensional notion of time and existence is replacing the linear time that is very much an arbitrary creation of human materialist consciousness. And the perception of unity in great variety broadens rather than narrows our perception of our universe.  Order Now

JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LITERATURE  # 8

 Featuring a Forum on the oral-written interface in Achebe's fictions, this volume of contributions from scholars of Black and African writing around the world has exploded theoretical frameworks for propagating indigenous knowledge about the Black experience, the tensions of space and identity at various political, social, economic and psychological levels of African national existence, and their possible remediation through imaginative ideological fusions that are embedded in the external and subjective realities of our world. Order Now

JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LITERATURE # 7

 Across Borders is an attempt to commit the process of African integration in postcoloniality and postmodernity to the exploration of perspectives on black identities in contemporary writings and the interaction of cultural expressions beyond the borders of Africa and across the Atlantic.
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THE JOURNAL OF NEW POETRY NO. 6

This volume, in memory of Africa's Lady of Songs, Miriam Makeba, takes historical, sociological, literary, aesthetic perspectives on the evolution, practice and emergence of African poetry and music as mutually reliant and dependent creative media of art in society. It proposes that music should weave naturally, and most perceptibly, with religious function of art, in a social communion that holds greater purpose for individual and communal well being.
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THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LITERATURE NO. 6

 Here is an important contribution which integrates the oral traditions of African writing within new and contemporary expressions through exploring the literary permutations of oral performance arts in the works of African writers.
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CRITICAL STUDIES CS (A) 2: ONUORA OSSIE ENEKWE

The Second IRCALC Critical Supplement (A)2 series on African writing assembles a total of 17 Critical Essays, Chats, and Reviews on the Poetry and Prose Fictions of Nigerian professor of dramatic literature Onuora Ossie Enekwe. This is the first collective and comprehensive criticism and theorizing of Enekwe, whose writings have bolstered African aesthetic contributions to world literature and theatre.
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THE JOURNAL OF NEW POETRY NO. 5

“Rhythms of Conflict” the Fifth edition of the 2008 Journal of New Poetry holds greater relevance in poetry of the twenty-first century. Dedicated to the distinguished Malawian poet and scholar, Jack Mapanje, NP No. 5 will challenge readers with the truth of the aliveness of African art to the political and social concerns of the century.
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THE JOURNAL OF AFRICAN LITERATURE [JAL] NO. 5

JAL No. 5 contains 15 scholarly essays on the theme of War and Conflict in African Literature. Written by scholars from the United Kingdom, Africa, Asia, and America, this 2008 volume is divided in two broad categories of National/Political and Gender Conflicts to which have been added The Writer's and Chat Forums featuring writers and critics from Nigeria.
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THE JOURNAL OF NEW POETRY NP 4

NP No. 4 Theme, "Griots of our Times," examines African contemporary poetry in a way that will delight and challenge scholars. The reader will also find the review of some recent poetry publications from Canada, Namibia and Nigeria a revealing outline of present trends in the poetry of Francophone and Anglophone Africa.
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